Peter Schulenburg
Peter Schulenburg (* 1939 ) is a former escape helper on the inner-German border .
Career
Schulenburg studied law at the Free University of Berlin . After the Berlin Wall was built, he became a member of a student escape helper group led by Wolfgang Fuchs . Between April and October 1964, the group dug an escape tunnel to East Berlin from a rented bakery in Bernauer Strasse 97, later named tunnel 57 . Between October 2 and 4, 1964, 57 people came to West Berlin through the tunnel.
He received his doctorate in Bielefeld in 1972 and worked for many years in the legal department of an industrial company. Today he works as a lawyer in Berlin.
Honors
- 2012: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
Fonts
- Escape helpers: the group around Wolfgang Fuchs - Berlin: Berlin Story-Verlag (with Klaus-Michael von Keussler )
Web links
- Mass escape through tunnel 57 , In: BZ, September 28, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schulenburg, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German escape helper on the inner-German border |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |